This painting, attributed to an anonymous artist from the workshop of Filippino Lippi (c. 1457-1504), depicts two Muses—patron goddesses of arts, sciences and creativity—from...
Emperor Constantine V was the son of Emperor Leo III of Constantinople (r. 717-741), a ruler who brought much-needed stability to the Byzantine Empire...
In 1892, a short man named Engelbert Dollfuss (later belittlingly nicknamed Millimetternich) was born in the town of Texing, Austria. His young adulthood was...
This painting, attributed to an anonymous artist from the workshop of Filippino Lippi (c. 1457-1504), depicts two Muses—patron goddesses of arts, sciences and creativity—from...
This painting, by the French artist Henri Leopold Lévy (c. 1840 - 1904), was inspired by the interesting correspondence that occurred between Charlemagne (aka...
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian author, 1821-1881)
"I assure you, gentlemen, that to be too acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease."
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Galerius was a prominent military and political figure from the time of Emperor Diocletian (r. 284–305). During that Roman ruler’s reign, the governance of...
Anna Komnene (1083-1153) was an extraordinary woman. She was an erudite scholar of multiple intellectual fields and a cunning political schemer who is believed...
